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Old 09-10-2014, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Bonnevie View Post
I think another part of the problem is that patients may use multiple pharmacies for their meds. Trying to find the cheapest deals on meds. mean no one pharmacy has a record of everything you are taking. So interactions can be missed. Like BarryRx said, when he saw something, he could make a recommendation...but if you don't know the whole picture you can't do that. So that $10 gift card for transferring a prescription may not be that great a deal in the long run.

AND...sometimes patients do not tell their physicians or pharmacists of the supplements they are taking. I have friends say "Why? They are all natural???"

I am not a fan of alternative medicine advocates who are always shouting " BIG PHARMA" while they sell you their stuff and I am not a fan of Suzanne Somers who misleads people about breast cancer and endangers their lives in my opinion..
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